RE: Is a RDBMS needed?

>>Where are these developers that are cheaper than a DBA? Over here,
they >>get paid at $1500/day minimum, while DBAs are lucky if they can get >>$500/day...
>>Isn't it about time we pin-pointed WHERE the expenses are going
instead of >>rolling out the tired old "DBAs are expensive" chestnut? Might have been >>true 10 years ago. Not anymore and hasn't been for a looong time.

DBAs are "operator"s. There has been an explosion in the number of DBAs .... but .... quantity doesn't mean quality does it. (hey ! wait ! can't we say the same thing about Developers as well ?)

I see new DBAs using "old" Ratio based methods. New DBAs working on 10g and using scripts from V7 "passed down to them" (and they've never seen any database other than 10g -- so they reall do not know the difference between V7 and 10g ?).

Hemant K Chitale

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